Pull up the statistics page for the Minnesota Timberwolves and you have to scroll down quite a ways before you get to Marcus Georges-Hunt.

The soft-spoken Atlanta native made it his goal to be seen and not heard in his first full season of NBA basketball last year, and his stats (5.3 minutes per game, 1.4 points, 42 games played) certainly don’t jump off the page.

In Atlanta, though, Georges-Hunt is a star. More than 130 kids signed up for his first basketball clinic last week, helping him fulfill a promise the swingman and former Georgia Tech standout made when he embarked on a winding road to the NBA.

“I always said I wanted to do something like that if I reached my dream of making it to the NBA,” Georges-Hunt said in a telephone interview with The Athletic. “Just being able to see the smiles on their faces was pretty cool for me.”

Georges-Hunt was the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s high school player of the year for Georgia in 2012...